Sunday, June 8, 2008

Satterlee Hall; same time

12:30 p.m.

NEXT MEETING of Faith and Everyday Leadership
Sunday, January 27, 2008

The theme for the day is “God Questions and Leadership Style.” This is Year A – Session 2″ in your Learning Notebook.

Washington National Cathedral

Resources to help promote discussion focus on four understandings of leadership: adaptive, emergent, narrative and humble. Besides the photocopies in your Learning Notebook, also see the link on the right side of this page to Resources for Reflection — Year A – Session 2.

Note: The links to NPR’s website for the David Brancaccio audio files on “The Enron Story” could never be repaired at our end due to a problem on the NPR site itself; so a new set of NPR audio-links on Enron have been substituted in the Resources for Reflection list to your right.

Almost all of you were able to attend the first meeting of or Faith and Everyday Leadership ministry.  Gene Grogan asked the question,”Where do we go from here?”  We should remember to say the Prayer Attributed to St. Francis of Assisi daily, try to execute constantly its guidance in our family, work and community lives (as best we can), and make a substantial effort to study the resource material in our notebooks tor guidance.  Our next meeting is on November 4^th.

 All of our meetings (approximately quarterly) through next spring are for lunch at 12:30 p.m. in Satterlee  Hall on the designated Sundays as set forth on page three of the notebook with exception of the January, 2008 meeting.  Please change the date of our January, 2008 meeting from the 10^th (a typo error) to the 20^th.  The meeting schedule for the fall of 2008 and beyond will be set later.

 For those who were unable to attend the luncheon on September 30, please let me know by e-mail, and I will mail you the curriculum/resource notebook.  It contains a wealth of information and readings empowering us to live our faith in our daily lives.

Gems from our first session:

Scott Benhase:  Learning to relate our faith to everyday life.
Wayne Floyd:  Readings to teach and guide us.
Michael Maccoby:  Faith to lead us through our darkest hours.
Liz Leland:  Living by the Baptismal Covenant.
Bob McLean:  The ministries of everyday life, including Parris Island.
Bob: Cassidy: Family as the first and most important application for our faith,
Yours truly:  To be a follower of our Lord is to be a leader.  It’s inescapable

Thank you for your participation.  Next session we will split into small groups and begin to tell our personal narratives of faith in everyday life.

Let me know of any questions or thoughts you may have to help guide us going forward.

With best regards.

Tim

This will be your “home base” for the online component of this exciting new program:

• Information about future meeting times, dates, and places

• Suggestions for preparation by participants for the next upcoming Quarterly Session

• Quick Start Guides for facilitators of upcoming sessions with suggestions about how to make your session work smoothly

• Links to all of the Resources listed in your Notebook as “available online only”. These will be listed for each of the session in each of the three years of the program. These resources include

• Articles that are available on a newspaper or magazine web site

• Audio and video resources that are impossible to provide in a print publication

There is also a “blogroll” that gives you “one click links” to other places on the internet that may interest you. Some of these are other groups similar to Faith and Everyday Leadership™. Others provide links to organizations, publications, and programs that you want to explore as you get more involved in Faith and Everyday Leadership™.

If you have any questions about the use of this blog, please do not hesitate to email Dr. Wayne W. Floyd, the writer of the curriculum you are using, at the Alban Institute. He can be reached at wfloyd@alban.org. In the subject line of your email message, please simply put FEL.